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Sunday, 13 September 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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lava
During a volcanic eruption, several hundred cubic meters of lava are usually ejected.
These volumes can vary, sometimes being very large, such as during the eruption of the Laki rift vol ...
Enceladus
It is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.
Brain
The smallest brain mammal is the Etruscan shrew. The biggest one - the sperm whale.
The Etruscan shrew is also the smallest of the currently known mammals.
NASA
Apollo 13 launched on April 11th, 1970, and was forced to cancel the landing on the lunar surface (precisely on the Fra Mauro site), because of the explosion of an oxygen tank.
Fortunately, the lunar module served as a lifeboat and returned the crew safely back to Earth.
Brain
Thanks to the word patterns stored in memory, a person is able to read the text in which the letters have been mixed.
It is enough for the first and last letters of a word to be in the correct place.
Moon
The other side of the Moon is called the far side, not the "dark side" as some say, because each part of our satellite is darkened for exactly the same period.
Milky Way
It is located in the Local Group of Galaxies.
It is an area spanning 10 million light years and located in the Laniakea supercluster. We do not kn ...
Moon
The crushed and fragmented rock material that covers the Moon's surface is called regolith.
The thickness of the regolith cover in sea areas ranges from 3 - 5 m and in the highlands 10 - 20 m.
Earth
The largest tectonic plate is the Pacific one, covering an area of 103 million square kilometers.
Most of the plate is submerged under the ocean, the land area of the Pacific plate is only a part of ...
Silver
Silver does not react with clean air and water.
However, it becomes dull upon contact with ozone, hydrogen sulfide, and air polluted with sulfur compounds. Silver halides slowly decompose when exposed to light.